Dean Alphonse entered this world on the morning of Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at Magnolia Birth Center, in Houston, TX. This was my third pregnancy, and was thankfully un-eventful. Our first son was born via "emergency" c-section in January, 2008, due to a failed induction for "big baby" at three days past his due date. In the year following his birth, I discovered ICAN, and decided that any future children I bore would be born vaginally, baring a TRUE medical necessity. Three years later…